About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

PASCAL DATE INFORMATIONEaster Sunday for the Western Christian Church is defined as the first Sunday following the first full moon after the Spring Equinox. Lent is defined as the forty days prior to Easter not including Sundays thus Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, which is 46 days prior to Easter. Calculations for Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday were performed for the 3774 years from 326 to 4099. For the year range 326 to 1582, dates are based on the Julian calendar. For years 1583 to 4099, dates are based on the Gregorian calendar. Ash Wednesday falls in a range of 36 days from February 4 to March 10. Easter Sunday falls in a range of 35 days from March 22 to April 25. The extra day in the Ash Wednesday range is February 29, which only occurs in leap years. February 29 only effects when Ash Wednesday occurs since it is well before the Spring Equinox and has no effect on the date for Easter Sunday. March 10 to March 21 is a twelve-day range that must occur in Lent no matter the timing of Easter Sunday. The entire range of 82 dates from February 4 to April 25 represents all dates with Pascal ramifications.

February 16 is the 13th possible date for Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday occurs on this date 136 times during the 3774 years calculated and is ranked 3rd/4th of the 36 dates.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Democracy "Democracy is created by making an aggressive, determined, and long-term effort at eradicating the real axis of evil: poverty, homelessness, no health care." — Tony Kushner

Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On War Is Hell ". . .—Legal, technical, cultural and potentially financial support for ventures—New Bridge Strategies maintains a physical presence with staff on the ground in Beirut, Damascus, Geneva, Houston and Washington, D.C., and it has plans to expand into Iraq as soon as possible.. . . " — From the website of New Bridge Strategies, a firm headed by Joe M. Allbaugh, who was George W. Bush's campaign manager in 2000. The firm was founded in May 2003. newbridgestrategies.com.—Part 4 of 9 {Due to the length of some of these nutball quotes, I have decided to split the longer ones into parts. I could have abridged them but I think that would have lessened the impact of showing just how crazy these guys are. Please refer to previous and/or subsequent posts for complete quote.}

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like." — Charles "Casey" Stengel, New York Yankees Hall of Fame Manager, was another master of obfuscation, Stengel is Hall of Shame member #7.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

● 1568 - The entire population of the Netherlands - three million people - was sentenced to death by the Roman Catholic Church for heresy; This causes the Eighty Years' War.

● 1641 - English king Charles I accept Triennial Act

● 1646 - Battle of Great Torrington, Devon - the last major battle of the first English Civil War.

● 1659 - 1st known check (£400) (now on display at Westminster Abbey)

● 1666 - Netherlands & Brandenburg sign treaty

● 1675 - Birth of Tituba, exact year unknown, West Indies. Enslaved in the home of Reverend Samuel Parris in Salem, Mass., Tituba entertained neighborhood girls with stories from her homeland, including tales of voodoo and spirits. The girls, in turn, accuse a series of helpless people, including Tituba, of witchcraft. In 1692, she was sentenced to death. In 1693, however, a jury failed to agree on her fate. To pay for her prison expenses, Tituba was sold to another slave owner.

● 1801 - In Baltimore, the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church officially separated from its parent, the Methodist Episcopal Church. The denomination later became part of the AME Church, reconstituted in 1816 under Richard Allen. It held its first national conference in 1821.

● 1865 - English clergyman Sabine Baring-Gould, 31, first published the hymn, "Now the Day is Over." It was based on the text of Prov 3:24: 'When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid...and thy sleep shall be sweet.'

● 1866 - Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes the British Secretary of State for War

● 1868 - In New York City the Jolly Corks organization is renamed the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE). {My grandfather used to call this bunch of boozers the "Biggest Pricks On Earth."}

● 1880 - American Society of Mechanical Engineers founded, New York NY

● 1883 - Ladies Home Journal is published for the first time.

● 1885 - Knights of Labor strike Wabash Railroad.

● 1887 - 1st newspaper convention (Rochester NY)

● 1893 - Katherine Cornell, the American stage actress who was called "the first lady of the American theater", was born.

● 1894 - British troops occupy Ilorin, Gold Coast

● 1899 - Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur Iceland's first football club is founded.

● 1899 - President Félix Faure of France dies in office.

● 1903 - -59º F (-51º C), Pokegama Dam MN (state record)

● 1909 - 1st subway car with side doors goes into service (New York NY)

● 1909 - Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary

● 1911 - William P. Merrill, 44, first published his hymn, "Rise Up, O Men of God," in the Presbyterian periodical, "The Continent."

● 1913 - President Taft agrees not to intervene in Mexico

● 1914 - 1st airplane flight from to Los Angeles from San Francisco

● 1916 - Emma Goldman arrested in New York for lecturing on birth control.

● 1916 - Russian troops conquer Erzurum Armenia

● 1916 - Under the leadership of Henrietta Szold, 52, the Hadassah Study Circle at New York's Temple Emanuel reconstituted itself. Szold afterward made this sisterhood of U.S. Jewish women a nationwide Zionist organization. Szold herself headed the group until 1926.

● 1917 - 1st synagogue in 425 years opens in Madrid

● 1918 - The Council of Lithuania unanimously adopts the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state from both Russia and Germany.

● 1923 - Allies accept Latvia's occupation of Memel territory

● 1923 - Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamen. The next day he entered the chamber with several invited guests. He had originally found the tomb on November 4, 1922.

● 1927 - US restores diplomatic relations with Turkey

● 1931 - Extreme right wing Svinhufvud becomes President of Finland

● 1932 - The first fruit tree patent was issued to James E. Markham for a peach tree which ripens later than other varieties.

● 1933 - Catholic newspaper Germania warns against Nazis/communists

● 1933 - Germany - "Arbeiter-Echo" (Worker Echo), the unofficial organ of the German AnarchosyndikalistInnen published by the FAUD in Dresden, is banned by the Nazis.

● 1933 - Repeal of 18th amendment, ending prohibition in US.

● 1934 - Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund

● 1934 - Commission of Government sworn in as form of direct rule for the Dominion of Newfoundland.

● 1936 - Spain - Election and formation of the Popular Front government against the fascist Franco. Anarchists, socialists, communists, republicans, and labor groups form a republic and take power

● 1940 - World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark, with 299 British prisoners, is boarded in neutral Norwegian waters by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack and the prisoners set free, a breach of Norwegian neutrality at the beginning of World War II.

● 1977 - In the "Italian Spring," thousands reject authority, universities occupied throughout Italy. Students eject Communist union bosses from Rome campus. Started as a protest against university reform, evolved into generalized criticism of all forms of alienation -- especially bureaucrats, unionists, and political parties.

● 1977 - The Anglican archbishop of Uganda, Janani Luwum, was killed in automobile accident. Two other men were also killed.

● 1977 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR

● 1978 - The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois).

● 1987 - John Demjanjuk went on trial in Jerusalem. He was accused of being "Ivan the Terrible", a guard at the Treblinka concentration camp. He was convicted, but the Israeli Supreme Court overturned the ruling.

● 1989 - Investigators in Lockerbie, Scotland, announced that a bomb hidden inside a radio-cassette player was the reason that Pan Am Flight 103 was brought down the previous December. All 259 people aboard and 11 on the ground were killed.

● 1989 - Russo-Afghani war officially ends with withdrawal of last Russian troops from Afghanistan.

● 1989 - William Hayden becomes governor-General of Australia

● 1991 - Dutch PPR, Political Party Radicals, disbands

● 1991 - Gulf War: U.S. and UK war planes bomb the suburbs of Baghdad, injuring at least 11 civilians and killing three others.

● 1996 - Seven activists are arrested for blocking the road to the ceremony commissioning the nuclear warship U.S.S. Greeneville at the Norfolk (Virginia) Naval Base.

● 1996 - Thousands attend peace rallies throughout Northern Ireland.

● 1998 - China Airlines Flight 676 crashed into a residential area near by Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, killing 202 people, included all 196 on board and six on the ground.

● 1999 - Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrested one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.

● 1999 - In Uzbekistan a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islom Karimov.

● 1999 - Testimony began in the Jasper, TX, trial of John William King. He was charged with murder in the gruesome dragging death of James Byrd Jr. King was later convicted and sentenced to death.

● 2001 - Serbs killed in Kosovo pilgrimage; At least seven Serbs are killed in a bomb attack on a bus making its way to a religious ceremony in Kosovo.

● 2002 - The operator of a crematory in Noble, GA, was arrested after dozens of corpses were found stacked in storage sheds and scattered around in the surrounding woods.

● 2005 - Kyoto Protocol comes into force; The Kyoto Protocol that aims to slow down global warming takes effect but the US remains outside it. {It was ratification by Russia that finally brought the Protocol into force, joining in ignorant opposition is Australia.}

● 2006 - The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.

● Roman Catholic:● Remembrance of Lambertus● St. Abda of Edessa● St. Aganus● St. Daniel● St. Elias & Companions● St. Faustinus● St. Gilbert of Sempringham● St. Gregory X, Pope (1271-76)● St. Honestus● St. Jeremy● St. Julian of Egypt● St. Juliana of Cumae● St. Lambertus● St. Lucilla● St. Onesimus

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 3 (Civil Date: February 16)● Holy and Righteous Symeon the God-receiver and Anna the Prophetess.● Prophet Azarias Martyrs Adrian and Eubulus at Caesaria in Cappadocia.● St. Symeon, first Bishop of Tver.● St. Ansgar, Bishop of Hamburg, enlightener of Denmark and Sweden.● St. Romanus, prince of Uglich.● New-Martyrs Stamatius and John, brothers, and Nicholas, their companion.● St. James, Archbishop of Serbia.● Nicholas, Archbishop of Japan; Repose of Schemamonk Paul of Simonov Monastery, disciple of St. Paisius Velichkovsky (1825), and Hieromonk Isidore of Gethsemane Skete, Moscow (1908).

● Christian:● St. Elias● St. Juliana of Nicomedia

● Lithuania - Independence Day (1918)

● Kyoto Protocol Day (2005)

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"● US : Presidents' Day (formerly Washington's Birthday)-legal holiday - ( Monday )

THIS IS AN ABBREVIATED POST FOR THIS DATE USING ONLY THE FOLLOWING EIGHT SOURCES. A COMPLETE POST IS PLANNED AS SOON AS TIME ALLOWS.

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